Styling Links – Making the Mundane Somewhat More Interesting

It’s been a while since I’ve done a CSS style post, so I figure its about time, and today I want to touch on something pretty simple, the <a> anchor tag. Most anchors are pretty boring, some blue text that is simply underlined. Some people go a bit beyond and make it change colours when you hover and such, and I’ll look at that, but I want to take this a step further.

There are lots of other things you can do with links, such as defining partial styles for thinks like active, hover visited and non-visited links, but I’ll get into that later. It’s a little bit more difficult to demo here because I can’t easily embed a CSS file in my blog, so I’ll have to prepare it separatly, and then just link to it from here.